Can you add park hopping to Orbitz tickets after purchase?

[YYC_Mommy]

Hello, I am wondering if you can add park hopping onto your Orbitz tickets once you arrive at Disney if you want to?

Thanks in advance,
Kimberly

 

[JimmyV]

Yes, but use the ticket to gain admission to a park first, and then make changes to it. Once you use it, the price you paid becomes permanent as the baseline from which to make changes. Before its first use, if you make changes, they will first upgrade the price of the ticket to be equal to the one that Disney would sell you, and then price the upgrade from there.

 

[YYC_Mommy]

Thank you JimmyV!

 

[POOHsie]

Yes, but use the ticket to gain admission to a park first, and then make changes to it. Once you use it, the price you paid becomes permanent as the baseline from which to make changes. Before its first use, if you make changes, they will first upgrade the price of the ticket to be equal to the one that Disney would sell you, and then price the upgrade from there.

Your explanation of price-bridging is confusing.

To OP -- Use your Orbitz ticket to enter a theme park. Then do your upgrade. Your Orbitz ticket was purchased at a discount. Let's say you saved $25 compared to buying from Disney. If you upgraded before using your ticket, its worth to Disney, in the upgrade process, wouldn't be the price you bought it for, because Disney doesn't have that info. Disney only knows the wholesale cost they sold the ticket to Orbitz, perhaps $50 less than buying from Disney. So your PH upgrade would be $64, but you would also owe the $50 to bring your ticket up to Disney's current price. Your upgrade would cost $64 + $50 = $114.

But if you entered a theme park first using your Orbitz ticket, then did your PH upgrade ($64), Disney would go ahead and upgrade the value of your ticket to Disney's current price. In other words, you would only owe $64 for the PH upgrade, and you would keep your discount.

 

[JimmyV]

Your explanation of price-bridging is confusing.

To OP -- Use your Orbitz ticket to enter a theme park. Then do your upgrade. Your Orbitz ticket was purchased at a discount. Let's say you saved $25 compared to buying from Disney. If you upgraded before using your ticket, its worth to Disney, in the upgrade process, wouldn't be the price you bought it for, because Disney doesn't have that info. Disney only knows the wholesale cost they sold the ticket to Orbitz, perhaps $50 less than buying from Disney. So your PH upgrade would be $64, but you would also owe the $50 to bring your ticket up to Disney's current price. Your upgrade would cost $64 + $50 = $114.

But if you entered a theme park first using your Orbitz ticket, then did your PH upgrade ($64), Disney would go ahead and upgrade the value of your ticket to Disney's current price. In other words, you would only owe $64 for the PH upgrade, and you would keep your discount.

With all due respect, you are saying the same thing, using a whole lot more words, in a much more confusing manner.

 

[POOHsie]

Yes, but use the ticket to gain admission to a park first, and then make changes to it. Once you use it, the price you paid becomes permanent as the baseline from which to make changes. Before its first use, if you make changes, they will first upgrade the price of the ticket to be equal to the one that Disney would sell you, and then price the upgrade from there.

Sorry, your understanding of the mechanics of ticket price-bridging in the upgrade process is backwards.

From your first sentence, if the ticket price OP paid became permanent as the baseline, (and that price was a discount price), then OP would owe the amount it would take to bring the ticket up to Disney's current gate price before doing the upgrade, PLUS the upgrade cost. (In other words, no price-bridging.)

The second sentence (bolded) from your post, is the price-bridging procedure Disney follows AFTER you enter a theme park, not before. They will price-bridge your discount ticket to Disney current gate price, then do the upgrade. And that is why you will only owe for the upgrade.

 

[JimmyV]

Not following you at all.

Me.

Yes, but use the ticket to gain admission to a park first, and then make changes to it.

You.

Use your Orbitz ticket to enter a theme park. Then do your upgrade.

The rest is just detail. And at a level that few could ever follow.

 

[nalajms]

Just wanted to check that you can bridge the ticket to anything right? I believe the answer is yes. So if I buy tickets with park hopper and decide to add water parks after first use, it should only cost me about $40 or less (depending on the number of days) at GR, right?

 

[POOHsie]

Just wanted to check that you can bridge the ticket to anything right? I believe the answer is yes. So if I buy tickets with park hopper and decide to add water parks after first use, it should only cost me about $40 or less (depending on the number of days) at GR, right?

For a 2- or 3-day Park Hopper ticket, it's $40 to add WPF&M option. For 4-day Park Hopper tickets or more (up to max 10-day PH ticket), it's $64 for the Park Hopper, and just $26 to add WPF&M option. Upgrade at Park Guest Relations.

 

[YYC_Mommy]

Thanks everyone!